Perfectly competitive labor markets without distortionary taxes combined with a profit maximizing behavior of firms should imply that real wages should equal marginal product of labor (MPL). In this paper, we study the Turkish manufacturing industry and find that there exist a significant...

This paper analyzes the gender wage gap considering the effect of gender occupational segregation and its impact on those differences and imbalances in labor skills. It also investigates to what extent these mismatches are in turn an impact that collaborates in maintaining gender wage gaps....

This work analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on productivity, the demand for skilled labour and wage inequality of the Uruguayan Manufacturing firms for the period 1997-2005. Firstly, we estimate the effects of FDI on productivity, relative wages and relative employment of...

Cross-country variation in average retirement age is usually attributed to institutional differences that affect individuals' incentives to retire. We suggest a different approach. Since workers in different occupations naturally retire at different ages, the composition of occupations within an...

In recent years, the US has become increasingly reliant on foreign registered nurses to satisfy health care demands. The Philippines has emerged as the single largest source of nurses educated abroad, representing more than half of foreign nurses entering the US in the last decade. One of the...

In this paper we investigate the determinants of regret of study program for university graduates in Spain and the Netherlands. These two countries differ in their educational system in terms of their educational tracking in secondary education level and the strength of their education-labor...

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity...

A cikk a magasan fejlett országok tapasztalatait vizsgálva, megállapítja: a munkafeladatok felbontása, a szükséges tudás megosztása ma is folyik. Az új technológia ma sem igényel minden dolgozótól egyre nagyobb tudást. Különösen az információs technológia hatására az...

A tanulmány a munkaerő-kínálat volumenének, nemek és életkor szerinti struktúrájának a következő másfél évtizedben várható változását mutatja be. Ez a prognózis egyfelől néhány aktuális foglalkoztatáspolitikai következtetés levonására is alkalmat ad, másfelől...

A távlati munkaerő-prognózis kidolgozásának több mint egy éve folyó munkálatai befejeződtek. A prognosztizálás közvetlen célja a 2010-ig várható munkaerő-kereslet és -kínálat nemek, életkor, gazdasági ágak, képzettségi szintek és szakirányok, illetve foglalkozások...